Quilting by the Lake at Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center began in 1981 as a four-day quilting conference in Cazenovia, NY, and has grown into a 2-week, internationally recognized quilting event attracting over 200 participants from around the country and overseas.

Timeline PhotosFeeling super, super excited right now! I went to pick up the new City of Ottawa galleries guide for the upcoming session so that I could see my exhibit listing and to my complete surprise look who is on the front cover!!!! :)

This one is a MUST share. Via BBC News: "The Bolivian women who knit parts for hearts."

www.bbc.comwww.bbc.comThe Aymara women of Bolivia are using their centuries-old knitting and weaving skills to make parts to help children with holes in their hearts.

Is your application for MATERIALITIES: Contemporary Textile Arts Catalogue & Exhibition ready yet? We encourage you to submit work of any size or format that demonstrates innovative use of textile media. Any textile technique or material is acceptable, including the use of nontraditional materials and time arts, such as video and sound. Get MORE INFO here: http://www.surfacedesign.org/subpage/call-entries-members-catalog-exhibition

Congratulations to Shannon Stratton on her appointment as Chief Curator at MAD | Museum of Arts and Design! Stratton holds MFA (Fiber & Material Studies) and MA (Art History) from SAIC. She joins MAD after 12 years as founder and executive director of Threewalls, a Chicago contemporary arts org.